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[Razengan]

We already have a LOT of laws decide who is and is not allowed/able/encouraged to have a LOT of other very basic rights:

Food, shelter, healthcare, education, sex.

[crumpets → Razengan]

Other than the last one, those are entitlements requiring the government provide you with things, not rights.

[Razengan → crumpets]

Maybe putting the point in different words will resonate better:

There are already numerous examples of authority stepping in to “save people from themselves.”

[captainredbeard → Razengan]

What motivates your desire to control other people?

[natch → captainredbeard]

In the end it costs me money, time, and grief to fix your screwups. Example: people who don’t vaccinate can cause problems for the rest as diseases spread more quickly and with greater impact than otherwise. Clear?

[natch → Razengan]

Yes... that’s right. Good luck doing that with procreation in anything but a dictatorship type government.